Word: sloganeer
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...first the homosexual community was disoriented and defensive in reaction to AIDS. In the quite understandable attempt to get public support, it fixed on a strategy of claiming that AIDS was everyone's problem. Since we were all potential sufferers -- anyone can get AIDS, went the slogan -- society as an act of self-protection should go all out for cure and care...
Back at the time of the 1917 Revolution, there was a slogan to the effect that socialism is the vital and creative endeavor of the masses. Only now are we beginning to understand the real meaning of those words. Only through democratization and glasnost are we finally involving the individual and his talents in a way that is socially creative...
They are the nation's oldest fighting unit. Their stirring anthem and brave slogan -- "Semper Fidelis," always faithful -- have lifted patriotic hearts for 122 years. They have won some of the most revered battles in military history: Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Inchon. Their nicknames are synonyms for fierce fighting men: Jarheads, Leathernecks, Devil Dogs...
With an estimated value of $1.5 billion annually, marijuana has surpassed tobacco as North Carolina's top cash crop. In an attempt to slow down the harvest, some landowners in the Tar Heel State last week began posting signs with the slogan MARIJUANA WATCH near the remote fields where pot is grown. The idea is to show that the owners are cooperating with lawmen, thereby avoiding possible seizure of their property if marijuana is found...
First among them is Moses Berger, a former academic who seems to regard the slogan DRINK CANADA DRY as a moral imperative. As a child in Montreal, he is introduced to a local clan of mysterious origin and unlimited wealth. Forty years later, Berger finally discards alcohol for a fresh obsession: writing the saga of the strange and indomitable Gurskys...